OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Elmberg (1968i): Maybrat Northern

Original citation: Elmberg, John-Erik. 1968. Balance and circulation: aspects of tradition and change among the Mejprat of Irian Barat. Stockholm: Ethnographical Museum of Sweden.

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acháaˈxa

‘corpse’

achófaˈxoɸ

‘sago-pith’

achréaxˈre

‘to sit down’

amáchaˈmax

‘floor grating of pole house, indoors, house’

ara kawiaara kawia

‘fig tree’

chamáxaˈma

‘skull’

chapäxape

‘opposum’

chapekxapek

‘dance’

chara watäxara wate

‘butterfly, ghost’

charokxarok

‘hole, made in the wall of Krä-house through which the child is taken out, bi-coloured dema bird’

fawsɸaws

‘edible beetle-grub’

ferókɸeˈrok

‘out’

fiorɸior

‘plant’; ‘Coleus’

jinjin

‘banyan-tree’

kanékaˈne

‘patola-patterned cloth’

kapékkaˈpek

‘dance’

ko napáchko naˈpax

‘rake (for swidden work)’

korokkorok

‘nose-flute’

merúfmeˈruɸ

‘rake’

n'tanta

‘marriage partner’

nafasnaɸas

‘rub vigorously, exchange’

namename

‘knit, embroider’

nefenájneɸeˈnaj

‘myth, tale (?)’

newátneˈwat

‘catching fish in a trap’

osomúfosoˈmuɸ

‘fifteen’

pokejtpokejt

‘sago’

prenpren

‘feast of exchange’

rajraj

‘human being, person, people, man’

satúochsaˈtuox

‘connected with one dema, certain region or its people’

serchówiakserˈxowiak

‘rattan bag with two compartments (used by women)’

setátemseˈtatem

‘ten’

setúochseˈtuox

‘home region’

taittait

‘centipede’

tämajtemaj

‘ten’

temájteˈmaj

‘ten’

tuwoktuwok

‘palm-wine’

uiaruiar

‘crocodile’

wocháwoˈxa

‘ghost’

woreáchworeˈax

‘totem animal’